Thread by @soychicka

For those reading my proposal who disagree with my politics, please know that Dennis Hastert is the root of my disdain for the GOP. 1/

Growing up a few houses down the road from him, the silent whispers of his inappropriate behaviour were omnipresent in this small town. 2/

Silent whispers of a GOP that facilitated and enabled those inappropriate behaviours to persist, and covered up for his actions did too. 3/

In 2005, I took a role in a campaign that ran against him to make sure those rumours finally came in to the light. 4/

With the reports not only that he enabled Mark Foley, but kept him on as co-chair of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, 5/

it was clear that there was more than just partisan politics at play. Hastert was not the only one to know about Foley 6/

& Foley was not the only one to know about Hastert's history. The GOP has been complicit in hiding sexual assault of children for decades 7/

And the GOP's decision to centralize the information architecture of the party under the control of a single technology vendor, Smartech 8/

Smartech Corp, a subsidiary of Airnet Group., based in Chattanooga TN, was breached in late 2015, by Russian agents. govtech.com/security/FBI-N…

Smartech was, at one time, home to the information architecture of the RNC, innumerable republican campaigns, even congressional committees

under Dennis Hastert's leadership, including House Judiciary, Financial Services, Ways & Means, even House Intelligence Committee... 11/

all the sensitive information handled by those committees were hosted by GovTech, a sibling of SmarTech, hosted in the same facility: 12/

A basement of an old bank, in Chattanooga, TN.

Security? Provided by....

Chain link fencing.

timesfreepress.com/news/business/…

What else was on these servers?

Other than the RNC's website, email, GOP.com...

politico.com/blogs/ben-smit…

Hosting for email and websites for campaigns, state parties.
Hosting and call centers for the 04' Bush campaign, the '08 McCain campaign 15/

And this is where it starts to get good, folks. Perk up your ears, and feast on this - 16/

Remember: HRC wasn't the first to use an off-site email host...
Karl Rove had one too.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Whit…

And while HRC lost about 33,000 emails, that 22,000,000 missing emails, confidential information and all: is a bit more significant. 18/

And all at SmarTech.

[side note: I'll give y'all a chance to ponder this, while I eat what hopefully isn't my last meal. It gets better.]

1. I'm sure what I share here is only the tip of the iceberg. I'm only sharing the info I have support for from the free press (mostly) 21/

2. I didn't anticipate Hastert to be released quite so soon, so this 'welcome home' gift is by the seat of my pants, not prepackaged. 22/

So apologies for any typographic errors, etc.

Now back on track.... 23/

What else did SmarTech have to offer a hostile agent who could gain access to their server farm?

24/

Back in 2004, there was an irregularity in the presidential election in the state of Ohio. In the middle of the night, election night 25/

Ohio vote tallying servers started communicating with an external system.

harpers.org/archive/2012/1…
26/

One guess where that external server was? In the basement of an old bank in Chattanooga. At SmarTech. 27/

Based on communications and system architecture, experts said it was possible these communications could have tampered with vote counts 28/

And that's where this starts to drop into conspiracy theory land... as an OH lawyer moved towards filing RICO charges against purported 29/

Mastermind Karl Rove, after giving a deposition, the consultant in charge of designing the 'failover system' for the OH Sec of State... 30/

Mike Connell, also known as the President of SmarTech/GovTech et al., was purportedly threatened by Rove. 31/

32/ Subsequently, there were two or three suspected attempts at sabotage on Connell's private plane.

33/ The fourth time, he wasn't as lucky.

cbsnews.com/news/republica…

34/ Out of respect to the family, I'll not get into details or speculation of what transpired. I'm truly sorry for your loss.

35/ But conspiracy theories abound, and are bound to be mentioned in comments. That is the way of teh innerwebz. I'm sorry.

36/ Regardless, the truth about those server communications remains unknown, although some have shared that Connell had chosen to reveal

37/ his role in architecting the election fraud in his zeal to ensure the election of pro-life candidates. The public may never know.

38/ But any hostile agent who gained access to those servers would gain access to any evidence which remains therein. Kompromatilicious.

39/ One more item on the wish list of any agents hoping to interfere in US would undoubtedly be a copy of the voter rolls. Guess what?

Yup.

RNC VoterVault, after its genesis in an outsourced Indian code sweatshop, came to live in the basement at SmarTech.

pcworld.com/article/117930…

42/ And while that code base was under development in Maharashtra, the company was hacked by RyDen - a Russian hacker.

43/ But it's okay: "all work done on Voter Vault since 2002 has occurred in the U.S."

But below, you can see... yeah. No.
I.
Can't.
Even.

43/ And what did that database contain? Obviously, voter data. But what else?

latimes.com/la-op-hamburge…

44/ And also, enough to make you easily stalkable, if you're a woman.

talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/rnc-…

45/ That's the overview of the _types_ of information contained on SmarTech servers. Tomorrow, specifics & the evidence.

46/ But one last thing: Republicans, overnight, this is your chance to get out ahead of this. Come clean. Admit to the breach, its extent.

47/ There are many of us who know the rest, and we can't all be silenced.

48/ Does your love of party really trump your love of country?

49/ Are you willing to engage in mutually assured destruction of your fellow citizens, sacrificing all of us to maintain your fading grip?

50/ For Trump? For Hastert? For yourself? For the 25% of the base that will support you even through evidence you cover up for

51/ those who commit acts of sexual violence against 9yo boys, 12yo girls.

52/ those predators among your ranks who threaten violence and legal action against their victims

53/ those who use their positions of power to cover up for sexual predators among your ranks.

54/ Because that 25% might be the side with the guns and the will to use them to defend your empire to the death.

55/ But the other 75% of us - we're the side with the love for what this country was founded on. Liberty. Equality. Ingenuity. Creativity

56/ So if you remain silent, if you bow to those who hold things over your head or to that 25% ...

57/ You are no longer serving your country, you are subverting all the good that our founding fathers fought for, died for, bled, cried for.

58/ For this.

You're going to let yourselves be owned by THIS?

59/ For this.

60/ The truth will out. You can control how it outs, or you may be forced to eat the truth quickly, at the hands of others.

Choose wisely.

And welcome home, Denny.

p.s. You can still fix this, or you can deny it. Strength or weakness. Nation or pride. Your choice.

(Clarification: these companies have nebulous structure, contradictory refs. to the titles and roles, sorry if prev. tweet is imprecise)

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P.P.S. NOTHING in this thread should be taken to support or refute any notion that votes were changed in the 2016 or 2012 elections.